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Goals of TLHR: to promote and protect human rights under enforcement of military’s absolute powers and during Thailand’s political crisis and to enhance human rights enforcement and access to justice for victims of human rights violations and for civilians subjected to military justice and prosecuted under military administration.
Objective of this project: Create local human rights lawyer network in each region of Thailand and Raise Public awareness of Human Rights situation in the pass year in order to solve after 2014 coup human rights situation.
Activities 1: Networking local lawyer in Northern and Northeastern of Thailand by holding networking forum with 10-15 participants
Description
During November 2015 to February 2016, TLHR litigation team will have 1 time go to northern and 1 time go to northeastern of Thailand and will hold a forum to establish lawyer network. Meaning of lawyer include paralegal.
This forum aim is 1 day meeting between TLHR and network lawyers. TLHR will bring 5 staffs and 2 partners from Bangkok to the region. Network lawyers that TLHR aim to invite should base in northern and northeastern of Thailand in northern TLHR aim to focus the network in Chiangmai, Chiangrai, and Maehonsong and in northeastern TLHR aim to focus the network in Khon Kean and Chaiyapoom.
This forum aim to follow up on a forum which had arranged last year by another CSOs. TLHR will try to invite those lawyer who got invited in the previous forum and still interest to create lawyer network to join this forum also TLHR will invite new lawyer base on reference from TLHR’s partner.
TLHR had an internal discussion that major problem of unsuccessful lawyer networking is organizer of the network does not give a case to the lawyer and two parties (Organizer and Lawyer) don’t understand each other objective yet also an organizer has no follow up forum to discuss among the network.
In order to solve this problem, before TLHR go to north and northeastern the team will study on number of after 2014 human rights violation cases that happen in the region and which lawyer team handle the case and those lawyer sufficient in the region or not. And to solve on understanding of two parties, aside from follow up on previous forum, TLHR will find new lawyer base on invited from TLHR known lawyers.
Result:
Create region legal aid system for those who got effect by NCPO order and military rule in the region can access to justice without delay